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Sunday Play: Rossum's Cyber-Caf

on BBC Radio 3

By Jeffrey Robinson. In 1921 Czech playright Karel Capek wrote R.U.R.,
Rossums's Universal Robots, a satirical allegory based on the nature of power and what it means to be human. (Capek coined the word robot from the Czech word robota
-worker-to mean an artificial human.) Jeffrey Robinson uses R.U.R. as the inspiration for a science fantasy in which the role of the robots is taken by the whole of the internet. In Rossum's Cyber-Cafe, cyberspace has insinuated itself into every aspect of our lives and we are unable, either to control it or to function without it.
Producer Dave Batchelor

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeffrey Robinson.
Unknown:
Karel Capek
Unknown:
Jeffrey Robinson
Producer:
Dave Batchelor
Helena Glory:
Gayanne Potter
Frankie:
Angus MacLnnes
Domain Henry:
Ian Cusack
DrGall:
Joanna Tope
Marius:
Derwent Watson
Cesar/Pannise:
Simon Tait
Alquist:
Emma Currie

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